I spent a day packing boxes of lunches for the student volunteer army in Christchurch. We managed to prepare over 17,000 lunches 🙂 We in fact prepared so many, that they wouldn’t all fit in the truck being used to transport them to Christchurch, and so Ed Waite and myself carted them up in Ed’s Landcruiser.
Ed Waite in Palmerston, en route to ChristchurchThe authorities were requesting for out of towners to stay away from Christchurch and not to assist with the quake cleanup, so the only destruction we got to see were some wonky road signs and a couple of area of liquifaction such as this before heading out of town.
Great night out with my new flatmate Sushi, Rose, Jordy and Amy.
Amy, Rose, Jordy and Ryan Hellyer at The BreakSushi and Ryan HellyerSushi and JordanRyan Hellyer and RoseRyan Hellyer and AmyRose and Ryan HellyerJordy and Rose
Panorama taken from on top of Mt St John (near Lake Tekapo) showing Lake Alexandrina. Download high resolution version.Church of the Good Shepherd, on the Lake Tekapo waterfrontPanorama taken from on top of Mt St John, showing Lake Tekapo. Download high-resolution version.Lake Tekapo township as seen from Mt St John
During the hour after the earthquake in Christchurch on February 22nd 2011, the major New Zealand news sites were suffering overloading/performance problems, so this post was used to distribute photos until the news network sites became usable again.
Chris Laing and I camped at Pearl flat which sits below Mount Aspiring. Since no one else was stupid enough to go camping with the sand flies, we had the whole area to ourselves 🙂 The sand flies weren’t a major nuisance and seemed to avoid stinging us so long as we smothered ourselves in regular dollops of deet.